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TWISTER Is the Perfect Storm of Success and Filming Disasters
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The storm-chasing adventure film
Twister became a hit with viewers following its release on May 10, 1996, even though critics weren’t quite so kind. It saw commercial triumph too, becoming the year’s second-highest-grossing film behind
Independence Day. Pretty good for a year that also brought us
Mission: Impossible and that much of a surprise with big-budget disaster flicks at their city-destroying apex.
Twister hit the big screen decades ago, which means it’s time to take a trip down memory lane. Let’s look at the film, its improbably star-studded cast, and the behind-the-scenes turmoil that nearly turned the movie into the kind of disaster its heroes were chasing.
Melissa is not happy. One minute she s engaged to handsome young Bill Harding, who has a promising career as a TV weatherman ahead of him. The next minute, she s cowering in a pickup truck while tornadoes blow houses at her. And Bill can t wait to find another tornado. “When you told me you wanted to chase tornadoes,” she tells him, “I thought that was a metaphor.” It is a metaphor, Melissa, but not for Bill s dream. It s a metaphor for “Twister,” a movie that chases tornadoes with such single-minded dedication that plot, character, dialogue and even your engagement all disappear into the Suck Zone which is, we learn, that part of the tornado that sucks up everything in its path. By the end of the film, we have seen trees, TV towers, drive-in theaters, trucks, houses, barns and even cows sucked up by the Zone. Well, maybe only one cow. “I think it s the same one, coming past again,” Bill tells Jo.